— Anthony Eden[http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1938/feb/21/personal-explanations Speech] to the House of Commons (21 February 1938) detailing his resignation from the government as Foreign Secretary

— Anthony Eden[https://winstonchurchill.org/publications/finest-hour/finest-hour-128/churchill-and-the-western-desert-campaign-1940-43/ 4 Jan 1941], after Operation Compass and the Italian surrender at Bardia in the Western Desert.
Quoted in B. H. Liddell Hart's A History of the Second World War (Cassell, 1970), p. 117.